Can IT do Good in this world? Yes. IT can do lots of it and in unexpected ways!

Information Technology can directly do good in this world by reducing disease, helping medicine in numerous ways and helping get food grown and shipped to where it is needed. But people who started IT companies have pledged more than half their wealth, in Billions of $ to do good in this world and that just adds to the good IT can do!

Included in this list are many Tech Billionaires like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Pierre Omidyar (of eBay) and others.

Information Technology has always had and will continue to add to the wealth of the very innovative and useful, and there is no better way for it to do "wholesale" good in this world than to use a lot of that money for good.

There are a lot of whiny little folks, even on You Tube talking about how and why this is all about Billionaires doing Population Control on this world, etc. Bill Gates has been making positive changes with his foundation for almost two decades now in many countries around the world. The latest seems to be inspired by the difficulties they observed with many families in the U.S due to the recession and their genuine attempt to help them also.

Zynga games gives away a part of its earnings to charity and that motivated a lot of their customers to sign up and buy stuff from them (virtual goods, I Think). So a lot of the "little people" like us seem to be already doing our part through technology and now the billiionaires that benefited from large, wholesale adoption of technology are doing their part also.

Whoever said that IT cannot do good in this world?

He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own. - Confucius

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